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F. E. FGRSTER. sNBLL P01; FISHING.. No. 337,944. Patentedlvranl. 1886.

llNiTnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND E. FORSTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MIMSELF AND ALBERT G. FORSTER, OF SAME PLAGE.

SNELL FOR FISHING.

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To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, FERDINAND E. FoRsTER,

of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Snells for Fishing, of which the following is a specification.

My invention applies to the two-part snells madebytwistingtogethertwopartsstrandsof silk, cotton, or other suitable strong and well-twisted material.

The proper attachment of a snell to a line requires a loop. This is commonly made by knotting or by seizing, sometimes known as fwhipping7 or fishing I make it by providing a soft-twisted place in the end of a snell, formed by doubling a single strand so as to leave a bight at one end. The rest of the snell is hard-twisted, but the portion close to the bight is soft-twisted, leaving` the bight in a condition to be easily opened. Taking a double length of single cord engaging the middle in a murillion, engaging the two ends to the hooks of separate spindles provided with means for rotating them both in the same direction, and applyinga top in the space between the two strands, but not up to the bight, I rotate the spindles or arbors, and put in the required twist into the strands, and allow the top to move away from the murillion toward the arbors. As the work proceeds, the laying is effecteduniformly from the point where the top started to the end of the snell. Then the operation is stopped and the snell disengaged, a new length engaged, and the operation repeated. The effect is to make the snells uniformly laid7 from a point near the bight to the other end of the snell, but near the bight the twist is less. rlhis leaves a slack-twisted portion at the bight, which is exactly what is required to facilitate the attachment of the snell to the line.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specication, and represent what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure lis a side view of the snell complete. The remaining figures show the means for its manufacture. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, showing two arbors in the act of twisting the strands, which are two ends of the same piece of cord. It also shows the snell being laid by the employment of a suit- IFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,944, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed October 21, 1585. Serial No. 180,511.

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able swiveling and yielding device to hold the opposite end, and a suitable movable device to keep the strands apart until the laying is effected. Fig. 3 is a side View, and Fig. 4 an end View, of a portion of one of the arbors.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the figures where they occur.

A is the fixed frame-work, and B C are arbors mounted in suitable bearings therein. Each arbor is provided with a grooved pulley, B C', which receives a belt, D, driven from a larger pulley (not shown) rotated, when required, by hand or by any suitable power. Each arbor B C is formed with a hook, B2 C2, in its end. Each hook 'is divided by a sawkerf, m, which performs an important function,.as will presently appear.

E is the swiveling hook of a murillion, E', which may be in all respects of the ordinary character. I have represented it as affording the proper yielding tension by means of a cord, G, running over a pulley, F, and carrying a weight, H.

Iis a top-a smoothly-rounded grooved piece of hard wood or other suitable material-adapted to serve the ordinary functions in restrain ing the twist of the cords in laying them together.

To make such a snell composed of a hardf twisted uniformly-laid part (marked P) and a less-twisted but loosely-laid part, p, I take a piece of previously-made cord of suitable material of twice the length of the snell required. I knot each end and engage one in the hook B and the other in the hook C2. I engage each by passing the body of the cord or strand through the kerf m and drawing the knotinto the hook. I extend the doubled cord, thus forming two nearly or quite parallel strands, P Pz, and engage the bight or angle in the murillion-hook E. I insert the top I be tween the strands P P2; but instead of movtion to the belt D and rapid rotation to both the arbors B C, and consequently to their hooks B2 C2, rapidly twisting the attached The top I is held with a propstrands P P2.

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erly yielding force, and as the twist in the parts P P2 accumulates the top I is allowed to yield and move toward the arbors B C. This motion is allowed to progress steadily, and the parts l P2 are laid together with a hard and uniform twist from the point* quite to the hooks B2 O2. stopped and the completed snell removed, a new length properly knotted is introduced, and the operation repeated. The result of this operation lis to make the snell uniformly laid from the point* to the other end of the snell, and to leave it loosely laid from the point to the bi ght. In practice this end will be slighted twisted o1' laid together; but this will be so slight as to be insignificant. Itis easy with any pointed instrument, or with the lingers alone, to open the snell and form the proper loop to pass the hook through in attaching the snell to the line.

Modifications may be made. I can vary the length of the snell within a wide range. I can vary the length of the Asoft part p by simply changing the point where the top I is held at the commencement of .the operation. I can vary the thickness of the cord, and can change the material within wide limits.

Then the operation is Other means than knotting the cords and slipping the knotted ends in kerfs in the hooks;- may be employed for engaging the ends of the 3o strands with the arbors. I can adopt the usual practice of suchvatta'ehmentsby knotting a loop in the end of each strand. vIt-will [of course be understood that I can secure 'the -free ends of the strandsby tying them to- 35 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 45 my hand, at New York city, New York, this 16th day of October, 1885, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

F. E. FORMER.

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THoMAs DREW STETsoN, M. F. BOYLE. 

